shakran

Come on man, let's call this what it really is. Thought crimes are now a fact of life in the "land of the free."


Look I think we can all agree that this kid is a moron, a jackass, or a nut. Or all three. But the fact is, it is an individual's right to be a moron, a jackass, and a nut.

To criminalize writing about killing people would mean we'd have to jail pretty much all of the top authors on the planet, including Stephen King and J.K. Rowling.

I don't agree with dksuddeth very often but he has a point here. The terrorists have won gang - since 9/11 we've been throwing our rights to the wolves in the name of "safety" (even though we're a lot less safe now than we ever were) and few seem to give a damn.

Now that one nut shot up a college we assume that anyone who writes about stuff like that should be arrested. That's a thought crime, and we should rise up against such an idea.


However, while it is an individual in our society's right to write about crap like this, it is also society's right to ostracize him, treat him like the dick he is, and keep a VERY close eye on him to make sure he doesn't feel the need to do more than write about this crap. To display this kind of insensitivity is and should be inexcusable, but it should also not be illegal.